The National Court has confirmed the two years of disqualification imposed on the former president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) Pedro Rocha, according to the sentence reviewed by Europa Press.
Rocha was “sanctioned for three very serious infractions” by the Sports Administrative Court and his first appeal ended up being dismissed by a judge last September. Rocha thus intended to be able to run in the RFEF elections.
The former president of Spanish football announced at the time a legal battle to be a candidate in the imminent elections. This week the representatives were elected in the assembly who are then in charge of choosing a president. That battle has come to an end with a total defeat of the aspirations of Luis Rubiales’s successor – forced to resign for his kiss without consent to the Spanish national team player, Jenni Hermoso –
The court affirms that the infractions “have in common, indicatively, the exercise of powers that did not correspond to it, in accordance with the regulatory regulations of the Federation, ignoring the internal operating rules and depriving the governing body of knowing decisions of its exclusive competence”.
Therefore, the magistrates add, “it is possible to think that if the precautionary measure is agreed upon and the interested party continues in the position of president of the RFEF, there is a real risk that these behaviors could be repeated with the consequent serious injury to the legal assets that the disciplinary regulations try to protect.”
The Chamber also emphasizes that “the sporting values of honesty and respect for the rules that are intended to be projected on the entire society demand the correct exercise of the powers and managerial functions by the people who have been assigned them, which precisely because of the influence that as representatives of these bodies they have on the social body, they must be especially respectful of compliance with the rules.”
“It is not consistent with this objective, in the opinion of the Chamber, that a person who has been disqualified as president for failing to comply with these rules be provisionally allowed to maintain said position and be able to present himself in an electoral process after having been sanctioned for conduct that amounts to an attack.” serious to these values, to the extent that they collide with impartiality and respect for the rules,” the magistrates conclude.
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